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Poster:
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J Clement |
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October 05, 2010 08:56:19am |
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movies
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Subject:
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Closed caption subtitles |
Closed caption subtitles are not currently supported on the Internet Archive, but they definitely should be supported. There are 2 barriers.
1. When the 512k MP4 is created only the video and audio are transferred, while the subtitles are dropped, and possibly other audtio tracks are also dropped. This should be easy to fix.
2. The cript for the player does not setup the video options unlike Google and many other sites. This is a simple change in the generated HTL.
I have manually changed the 512k MP4 file so it has subtitles, but they do not appear because of problem #2.
While it is possible to have the subtitles as part of the video, this mars classic videos, and are not needed by native speakers of the movie language. But more importantly by having closed captioning the user can select the language, and this can be vital for the hard of hearing.
So this option needs to be made available so downloaders can provide closed captioned movies. Everyone else is doing it, so the Archive needs to implement these simple changes.
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Poster:
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 tracey pooh |
Date:
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May 31, 2012 03:20:02pm |
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Forum:
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movies
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Subject:
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Re: Closed caption subtitles |
since feb 2009, at least.
it hasn't been well documented, but it's been working since then.
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